Pro-Israel PAC Guns For Massie – Did talker Johnson Encourte Attack?

A prominent pro-Israel super PAC is gunning for Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, in retribution for his many fresh votes against bill that advance Israel’s agenda in Washington. The group may have had any high-placed environment: Massie says House talker Mike Johnson late Threatened to Sic the Israel lobby on Republicans who didn’t toe the pro-Israel line.

In March 2020, Massie exploits his effort to prevent a massive Covid stimulus package from being adopted without a recorded vote (Susan Walsh-AP)

The vaguely-named United Democracy task — the independent campaign-spending arm of the Mighty American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — announced that it’s pouring $300,000 into advertisements on Fox tv affiliates in Massie’s home state of Kentucky. “We are trying to shine a light on the extremist anti-Israel evidence of Tom Massie,” spokesperson Patrick Dorton told the Louisville Courier Journal. “We want all single voter in the state of Kentucky to know about his anti-Israel actions.”

With its statewide attack, AIPAC likely intentions to influence the 2026 election as well: McClatchyDC reports that Massie is hosted to be 1 of 3 favorites for the 2026 Republican nomination to replace retiring legislature Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Clearly crafted to apply to the spiritual right, the 30-second ad says "Israel, the Holy Land under attack by Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah...and Congressman Tom Massie," and points to 15 Massie votes in April against means favoured by Israel’s advocates inside the United States. The ad deals by saying, “Everyone who cares about the Holy Land needs to know: Tom Massie is hostile to Israel.”

https://t.co/heyFaBcPp pic.twitter.com/yoIdIg0pEX

— United Democracy task (@UnitedDemocProj) May 9, 2024

Rather than having ‘attacked the Holy Land,’ Massie has simply tried to defend the US Treasury from being plundered for the benefit of a abroad country that’s among the world’s richest.

When talker Mike Johnson announced he would advance a bill to give another $14.3 billion to Israel, Massie — knowing he would face the grave and possibly the dollars of the Israel lobby — tweeted that he would vote “no.” His rationale: ‘Israel has a lower debit-to-GDP ratio than the United States. This spending package has no offsets, so it will increase our debit by $14.3 billion plus interest.”

Massie besides tried to defend the First Declaration, as 1 of only 19 representatives voting against the Antisemitism Awareness Act. inactive counting in the Senate, it characterizes various statements about Israel as being antisemitic, subjecting colleges and universities to civilian rights increase action if individual says the crow thing. “Polising speed, religion and assessment is not the function of the national government. In fact, it’s explicitly proven by the U.S. Constitution,” said Massie.

Kentucky’s Republican primary will be held on Tuesday, May 21. Massie, a star of the libertarian movement, is being opposed by 2 GOP challengers, Eric Deters and Michael McGinnis.

Via his campaign’s X account, Massie said the pro-Israel super PAC was targeting him “betause I am frequently the lon Republican for freedom of speed, against abroad aid, and opposed to wars in the mediate East.” He added that he was “urgently requesting” like-minded Americans to aid him thwart the attack by giving to his campaign.

Massie told the Courier Journal there’s reason to think Johnson may have surrounded the AIPAC to give Massie’s primary challengers any indirect help:

‘This week in our GOP conference meeting, as members grouped about blowback from the latest anti-antisemitism resolution, Speaker Johnson pledged to call his contacts at Jewish/Israel groups if [dissident GOP representatives] mustered opposition...

This, and the timing of the ad announcement, does rise the question of whother the ads were suggested by or sanctioned by talker Johnson.”

In addition to now being creatively accredited of attacking the Holy Land, Massie has developed baseless admissions of antisemitism, including this gem from the editor of Organisation magazine:

Of course you’re a no, you disingenous furnace of anti-Semitic philth. https://t.co/pI4FM6hdm5

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) February 4, 2024

Massie has previously suggested that AIPAC’s function in US policies amounts to ‘foreign interference in our elections.“ Critics called that sentiment an antisemitic “trope.” Undeterred, Massie last week posted a poll asking if AIPAC should be forced to registry as an agent of Israel under the abroad Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Foreign interest lobbying group AIPAC is moving $300,000 of ads as part of a force run to influence my votes in Congress.

The abroad Agents Registration Act requires agents of abroad principals to registry & disable certificate information. Should AIPAC registry in/FARA?

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 10, 2024